Race and Social Media: How to Push the Conversation Forward
 

Race and Social Media: How to Push the Conversation Forward
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"2014 was the year everyone started talking about race," said Jenna Wortham, a New York Times tech**logy reporter, at the Theorizing the Web conference in Brooklyn on Saturday. "Let's **t let 2014 be the only year that everyone started talking about race."

Wortham's sentiment embodied the conference's key**te plenary, called "Race and Social Media," which considered how social media can amplify — and hinder — discourse about race, how we use social networks for social justice, and whether they're even the right tools to use.

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Lisa Nakamura, professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, said that in recent years, race theory has focused more on feeling: bodily experience, affects and trauma. Read more...

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